Maid as muse : how servants changed Emily Dickinson's life and language /
Murray, Aife.
Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover, N.H. ; London : University Press of New England,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.
Introduction: Walking backward to something you know is there -- Warm and wild and mighty -- The 1850 housework compromise -- Turning with a ferocity to a place she loved -- Of pictures, the discloser -- Emily Dickinson's Irish wake -- She kept them in my trunk -- There are things / We live among -- Afterword: The broadest words are so narrow.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Poets, American
Household employees
Women household employees